Lip balms for every budget: Under $10 to over $30

Lip balms - it's one of those staples that you can go as budget or as boujee as you like. There truly is something for all budgets.

Whether you're looking for something ultra-nourishing, lightweight or maybe with a tint of colour, below, BD has rounded up options to tick every box.

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Under $10

Scully’s Lavender Lip Balm is a lip balm with SPF 15 and orange and lavender oils that soothes dry or cracked lips.

Revlon Kiss Balm is a lip balm that delivers a sheer tint of ultra-hydrating colour. The formula is enriched with natural fruit oils for soft, kissable lips. It is available in six flavours.

Bondi Sands Lip Balm with SPF50+ is a lip balm to hydrate, soothe and repair dry lips. The lip balm provides a deeply nourishing protective barrier when heading outdoors. It is sheer and creamy, perfect for wearing alone as a gloss or over the top of lipstick for added shine.

Carmex® Original Flavour Lip Balm Stick SPF15 is a moisturising lip balm with SPF 15 to help lips stay protected from environmental damage such as the sun and wind. The unique formula helps to soothe, moisturise and relieve dry, chapped lips caused by environmental factors, resulting in soft, healthy-looking lips. It replenishes lips and aids moisturisation while also providing broad spectrum sun protection against UVA and UVB rays.

$10 - $30

The Body Shop Lip Care is a moisturising lip balm in a stick. It hydrates and conditions lips while delivering a subtle shine.

Wild Ferns Manuka Honey Lip Balm is an ultra-conditioning lip balm that will help to seal in moisture and condition dry cracked lips. Enhanced with premium certified Manuka Honey 80+ and blended with vitamin E, shea butter, sunflower seed oil and bees wax, these ingredients all work together to protect, hydrate and soften your lips. Wild Ferns lip care products contain natural bees wax which is exceptionally moisturising. This lip balm is ideal used a night to moisturise and heal your lips while you sleep.

Arbonne Shea Butter Moisturizing Lip Balm is an essential addition to your everyday, go-to collection. Our hydrating formula helps nourish lips and leaves them feeling soft and smooth. Containing five moisturizing botanical oils, this silky balm is the perfect solution to dry lips.

Pure Fiji Lip Balm is made with fresh coconut milk, dilo oil, macadamia oil, castor oil and beeswax. Packaged in a box.

Over $30

Clarins Hydra-Essentiel Replenishing Lip Balm is replenishing lip care for dry and damaged lips. Enriched with comforting blue lotus wax, this balm's rich melt-in texture protects, hydrates and nourishes lips, restoring their natural rosy glow and plumped appearance. 

Nutrimetics Nutri-Rich Nourishing Lip Oil is a fusion of nourishing lip balm and sheer gloss in one. Infused with apricot kernel and mulberry oil, it enhances lips with a boost of explosive shine, deep nourishment and a comfortable finish. Keep lips nourished, plumped and volumised for a customised natural or glamorous look.

Benefit Lip Tint Hydrator is a tinted lip balm that conditions and hydrates the lips while providing a subtle pop of colour. The lip tint has been formulated with mango butter and sodium hyaluronate to condition and soften lips. The lip tints provide a sheer, buildable colour and are available in four shades: Benebalm, Posiebalm, ChaChaBalm, and LolliBalm.

jane iredale LipDrink Lip Balm SPF 15 is a lip balm that is formulated without petroleum-derived products. Carrot seed oil helps smooth, soften and soothe the lips, avocado protects and moisturises, while coffee seed, blackberry and green tea leaf extracts provide antioxidant benefits. Lemon peel oil offers a fresh taste. The lip balm can be used alone or layered on top of lip colour. Available in seven shades: Crush (sheer berry), Buff (sheer nude), Sheer (translucent), Flirt (sheer peachy pink), Tease (shimmery plum brown), Giddy (sheer fig shimmer) and Pout (sheer pink shimmer).